Billy_KinettaPaladin of the Lost HourGold Supporting MemberSupporting Member

Violent imagery has reached a level of vileness not seen in the past. From blood and brain splatter to secret codes in popular games to open rape scenarios.
Add that many have lost the separation of fantasy vs. reality as they soak every waking minute into social media sites that damage young minds before learning proper social interaction.
The creators openly admitted it.
Now a host of school lockdowns nationwide as threats are made against schools on social media by sociopath users.
Who the hell would have even entertained a threat decades ago?
My opinion is it is a contributing factor of many.

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The same violent games and movies we have here, they have in every other country around the world. Yet we are the only country with mass shooting epidemics. So what makes us different from France or Israel or the UK, who gets the same movies, tv shows, and video games we get?

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It is not the fault of the Constitution that you people screw up everything you touch.

Nothing could be more irrelevant to me than what happens in other countries. I live in this one.

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Actually it's completely relevant to what we're discussing because video games are the constant; meaning they get the same video games in Japan and Canada that we get in the US. So since the games are the same, yet mass shootings occur in just the US, it's not the games that are causing the mass shootings, otherwise there'd be mass shootings in Japan and Canada.

Actually it's completely relevant to what we're discussing because video games are the constant; meaning they get the same video games in Japan and Canada that we get in the US. So since the games are the same, yet mass shootings occur in just the US, it's not the games that are causing the mass shootings, otherwise there'd be mass shootings in Japan and Canada.

Very interesting! I read the whole thing. I was not surprised --- but many will be --- at how MUCH of America's entertainment budget is soaked up by video games. 54% with the other candidates in the pie being movies, DVDs, and music. (Sports was not included, nor TV, however.) How the growth line is a 45% slant up. How many people are employed -- and how much they make.

I was surprised at the relatively high age of the game buyers -- 37 -- and don't believe it correctly reflects the players. I expect a lot of those are parents buying for their teenage kids.

So then it isn't the video games. So what about American culture is different than English culture? They play Call of Duty in England. They watch Game of Thrones and Walking Dead in England. They watch violent movies in England. Yet they don't have mass shootings in England. Why?

Bloomberg right now is dealing with the gaming and Trump's conference going on now. They are saying that Nikolas Cruz was known to be a very intensely active gamer with the most violent shooter game (the speaker seemed to hint it was Call of Duty but there are others). Of course, what else did the kid have to do, being expelled and unemployed.

Still, that perhaps explains the president's interest: he would know that about Cruz.

Bloomberg right now is dealing with the gaming and Trump's conference going on now. They are saying that Nikolas Cruz was known to be a very intensely active gamer with the most violent shooter game (the speaker seemed to hint it was Call of Duty but there are others). Of course, what else did the kid have to do, being expelled and unemployed.

Still, that perhaps explains the president's interest: he would know that about Cruz.

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Call of Duty is sold worldwide.

They play Call of Duty in Japan, Korea, Israel, France, the UK, and the US.

But only the US has mass shootings.

So video games aren't the cause; something else is. What is different in the US than in any of those other places? The guns.

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